I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.